Hi Players,
 
It's a fine morning here in The Hub.  Hope it's nice where you are, too.  Austria has expedited his retreat orders so we can proceed to the next phase.  Those of you who are privileged to see those retreats will see that info in your country reports to be sent out immediately following this message.
 
Now it is time to post the Supply Center counts for 1901.  This is like publishing the salaries and tax returns of your local public officials.  Who knew he made that much?  He's not doing so well.  Maybe a bad investment?
 
Enough of my tortured analogy.  The chart:
 
COUNTRY    SC
Austria     2
England     5
France      3
Germany     4
Italy       5
Russia      7
Turkey      5
 
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Winter 1901/Spring 1902 are due Friday, May 7, at 8 pm Eastern time.  If all orders are in and marked Final I may adjudicate earlier.
 
Reminder that you can only build on your home SC.  It was only the starting turn where you could position your units in other spaces.
 
 
NOTES on Retreats:
 
I received a couple of good questions about retreats that I thought I would share with everyone.
 
Q:  What happens if austria retreats to a space with a unit already in it? Disband?  My guess then would be disband the fleet and retreat to bul (disbanding) and build 2 armies.  If that happened, would russia see that the retreat fails? Would the rest of the game?

If Austria does not submit a legal retreat, Austria's unit will be disbanded.  That would include all of these scenarios:
1.  retreating to an occupied space
2.  retreating to a space where units bounced the previous season
3.  colliding with another retreating unit (his own or another player's)
4.  an invalid retreat based on the map.  e.g. Retreat A Rumania - Warsaw.
5.  NRR - no retreat received
 
The opposing player(s) who caused the retreat would also learn of the disband, but not where the unit was ordered to or why the disband happened.  In other words, whether the retreat succeeds or fails, the opponent is told the RESULTS of the retreat only.  Austria, himself, would be given the exact reason in the case where the retreat failed.
 
For example, England dislodging a German army from Kiel might be told "The German army has retreated to Denmark" or "The German army has disbanded."  In the latter case, he wouldn't know whether the disband was ordered by the German or was the result of one of the situations noted above.